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Do you know of Valley Grove ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Valley Grove. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Valley Grove.<1>

We found mention of Valley Grove as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in DeSoto County, Mississippi.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1850 and closed  in 1852.

Communities Also Named Valley Grove ...

We found five communities that share the name Valley Grove.

Within Mississippi, the name Valley Grove is unique.

Beyond Mississippi, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Colbert County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Valley Grove [Colbert County].
    • Tennessee
      • Knox County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Valley Grove [Knox County].
    • Texas
      • Rusk County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Valley Grove [Rusk County].
    • Washington
      • Walla Walla County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Valley Grove [Walla Walla County].
    • West Virginia
      • Ohio County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Valley Grove [Ohio County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Valley Grove ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Valley Grove:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

More Orphans in  DeSoto County ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in DeSoto County.

AldenaLove's Station
Alpica 
 Mooretown
BlytheMount Isabel
  
CaldwellNemway
  
Dark CornerOverpark
DorionOwensville
  
EutawPoplar Corners
 Prattsville
Freeze Corner 
 Sullivan
Greenleaf 
 Tatesville
Kelly 
KiletonWoodland Lake
 Wooten
Lake of Hills 

Footnotes ...

<1>This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
<2>Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.
<3>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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